I think that I'm totally into the idea of Kagome having a little crush on Sesshoumaru. Maybe sometime soon I'll take it to the next step and have them actually get together, but for now this is a good way to develope my skills. This one is a little more humorous than serious and should be taken as such. FYI I actually do like Biology a lot. It just seemed a logical choice for a text book.
Disclaimer: I in no way own the characters, ideas, or other intellectual property used by me in this story. Nor do I in anyway gain monetary profit through this work. This is a work of amusement and personal satisfaction only and is not meant to reflect on the actual Inuyasha story or Rumiko Takahashi in anyway. Possitive, negative or otherwise.
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Biology was a bitch. Kagome glared at her text book willing it to burst into flames. The book just sat in her lap, cheery white pages gleaming in the sun as if all were right with the world.
Slamming the book shut she tossed it a little ways across the clearing. Disgusted with it's shiny disposition.
That is, if books could have a disposition, and even if they couldn't, she was pretty sure this one did. It was too clean, with it's crisp new pages. The utter gibberish that filled it was surely all a joke to annoy her. Of this she was sure.
Summer break had ended three weeks prior and the time-traveling girl was dead set on getting better than abysmal grades this year; or at least for the first quarter. Unfortunately, for her biology thus far was utterly boring.
Rin, having looked up from her coloring book, was busily examining the cover of the biology that had been tossed so rudely in her general direction. Her little face was scrunched up in thought concentrating very hard on bringing whatever was poking the back of her mind to the front for examination.
"Kirin!" She exclaimed happily having tried to say the word a few times before it came to her.
"What was that Rin-chan?" Kagome asked, having heard the girl struggle with what she had to say.
"Ne, Kagome-sama, why does your book have Kirin on it?" She asked pointing to the cover of the text.
Standing from her towel, laid out for optimal sunbathing, Kagome looked at the glossy cover trying to determine what it was the girl was referring too.
The cover of the text was busy, filled with some animals, the earth and a random flower. But for the life of her she couldn't determine what exactly the girl was talking about.
Understanding the blank look on the older girl's face Rin wisely pointed to the Kirin so that Kagome-sama would see it too. Sometimes adults missed things too.
"See Kagome-sama? It's Kirin. Why is Kirin on your book?"
Seeing now that the girl was referring to the giraffe on the left side of the cover Kagome searched her memory for anything that would explain what the small child beside her was going on about.
As she though she remembered her first trip to the zoo. There had been Giraffes and her grandfather had excitedly told her of the Chinese legend of an animal that lived for two thousand years and marked the births of important people. He had called the creature a Kirin and laughed at how people interpreted things they didn't understand before prattling on about similar legends.
It was times like this that having a crazy old coot for a grandfather came in very handy.
"It's not Kirin Rin-chan, it's a giraffe." She corrected calmly, amusement lacing her words.
"But it looks like Kirin to Rin!" The girl protested, wanting to believe she was seeing a picture of the creature the old ones from her village had told all the children stories about. "It's got feet like a Kirin, and two horns and it's very, very big!" She declared confidently.
"I see what you mean Rin-chan." Kagome soothed. "But Kirin has the head of a dragon, remember?"
"Oh yeah..." Rin's dejection at being wrong was apparent, her shoulders slumped and her head bowed.
"But, in my time, they saw that the Kirin was thought up because of the Giraffe." Kagome quickly told the girl, hoping to chase the sadness away.
"So Rin wasn't wrong?" The hesitation in her hopeful speech was positively the cutest thing Kagome had ever heard.
"No, Rin-chan wasn't wrong. Come sit with me Rin-chan and I'll tell you all about the Giraffe."
And so the two sat as Kagome explained about Africa and what the Giraffe ate, how you could see them at a zoo, what a zoo was, why kids went there for their birthday, and answered every other question the little girl had as best she could.
"Is it mean Kagome-sama?" The thought that such a pretty creature could be mean if it saw Rin-chan was not pleasant and she was sincerely hoping that it was nice and would play.
"No Rin-chan, It's called a gentle giant by people in my time. It's big but very, very kind."
"Like Sesshoumaru-sama?" The little girl said, adoringly.
Kagome snuck a glance at said Demon Lord to see him staring stonily at his ward, while the girl looked at Kagome as if any contradiction would shatter her little world.
"Yes Rin-chan. Like Sesshoumaru-sama."
Said Lord looked away to continue his silent repose, ignoring the obviously ridiculous comment.
And as the little girl smiled Kagome began to see that maybe, just maybe she wasn't wrong.
"Exactly like Sesshoumaru-sama."
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